Kayford Mountain, March 21, 2009
High Resolution Mountaintop Removal Pictures

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Photos by Vivian Stockman; Flyover courtesy SouthWings

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Down along Clear Fork, things aren't so quiet anymore.

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The cabins belonging to the Stanley Heirs -- Larry Gibson's relatives -- are no longer peaceful retreats.

Larry Gibson's cabin is the group furthest at right, the one in the right of the "V" in the road.

The big shovel is in the foreground.

A blast will soon go off, shaking the community below.

Do click on this photo to open up the high resolution version, and check out the scale of this small section of the destruction.

The cabins are perched on an ever-diminishing green island in a sea of extreme greed and lack of understanding of humanity's life support systems manifested as mountaintop removal / valley fill coal mining.

Down along Clear Fork, the mountain's demise is painful to watch. The community is devastatingly altered, the land and waters and life they support impoverished.

Another angle, more destruction.

What does it say about human nature that we allow this kind of destruction to go on?

If we don't demand an end to mountaintop removal, coal companies will inflict this carnage upon every coal-bearing, verdant, richly-forested, water-blessed, community-supporting mountain.